Concrete Advice 02 Suspended concrete floors: maximum size of pour allowable and location of construction joints
Publication Year
2014
Document Status
Withdrawn
Abstract
Suspended floors have different movement restraints compared with ground floors, notably in the joints with columns, walls, beams and other vertical connections. This document offers guidance on type, location and formation of joints, along with the restraint and provision of reinforcement and sequence and area of pours.
Document History
Issued July 2003. Revised January 2014 and October 2016.
Author
Barnbrook, G. and Simpson, D.
Publisher Information
Concrete Society
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